visual medium
Photographic space
The reproduction of space by the artist is analytical. Creating a certain disposition of objects and figures on the plane, he sequentially builds depth, going from one spatial plan to another. The orientation of our eyes in space is based on a clearly fixed consciousness of verticals and horizontals – no tilting of the observer’s head creates a visual sensation similar to the effects of shooting with a camera tilted up or down. In the same way, the gaze directed into the distance tends to “straighten” somewhat, rationalize space. He involuntarily gives objects indefinitely turned to him more distinct positions, leading to the frontal plane of their face or profile. Continue reading
Crop and fragment the image
Image cropping is a purely photographic principle, determined by the specific features of the photocomposition, and methods of constructing a photographic space. The device’s lens more or less mechanically “cuts out” a certain sector from the unlimited space of nature. No matter how consciously and deliberately the borders of the frame and the location of the graphic elements in its field are chosen, this does not cancel the principle of fragmentation of nature. On the contrary, it is the photographer’s creative attention to the structure and boundaries of the frame that prompts him to isolate a fragment by the composition method. Continue reading
Aesthetics pictures
One of the very important qualities of photography for the development of modern visual culture was the relative ease of obtaining a more or less benign picture, the simplicity of the initial skills that a beginner needed to master. And therefore, with the invention of photography, and especially with the spread of portable and easy-to-use narrow-film devices, the number of images created in the world began to grow like an avalanche. Photography has become the main visual medium of modern culture, pushing painting and graphics, on the one hand, into relatively narrow areas of “pure” art, and on the other – into specialized areas of technical drawing. Continue reading
